PAINTING OVER HISTORY

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If you were paying attention to the 60 Minutes interview with Donald Trump last Sunday, you may have noticed a vulgar painting featuring what looked like our sleazy president hanging out at one of his gaudy country clubs.

And you would have been correct regarding two out of those three counts. For the locale of this art de merde was some fantasyland featuring what the GOP might consider its greatest hits:

Behold The Republican Club by Andy Thomas. Lest you think Thomas is partisan, he's also responsible for another painting featuring Democratic presidents shooting pool. The latter is available via the misnamed site Touch of Class. It originally went for $420, but has been since marked down to $239.99. I guess they don't see a blue wave coming. 

Il Douche.

Despite what George Takei claimed on his Twitter page, Trump didn't commission Thomas for this... thing. (Trump associates the word "commission" with paying people, which is the last thing he wants to do.) 

Rather, it was a gift from Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA). Issa, currently (and mysteriously) being deposed in the divorce of fellow GOP congressman Mike Turner, is best known for being such a coward that he once addressed his constituents from the roof of his district office building in order to avoid protesters. I keep hearing about California libtards, but they're clearly not voting in great masses.

Trump fans are undoubtedly ordering their copies of The Republican Club by the (elephant) trunkful. They ought to think twice, however. Theoretically, they must love the idea of their manumitter being welcomed by his predecessors. But they may wish to reconsider. There's more to these fellows than meets the eye. In chronological order:

ABRAHAM LINCOLN: Went to war against states-rights activists who wanted to keep an overreaching federal government to mind its own damn business. Plus, he freed the blacks. What the H was that all about?




THEODORE ROOSEVELT: Wasted tax dollars on conserving hundreds of millions of acres of land for national parks and forests. Broke corporate monopolies. Endorsed immigration. Created the Interstate Commerce Act, yet another act of overreaching regulation of private business.  Pro-science. Pro-consumer. The first president to invite a black man, Booker T. Washington, to the White House for dinner. Again with the blacks!

DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER: Wasted tax dollars on creating the government-run, socialist Interstate Highway System. Warned against the military industrial complex.  Responsible for NASA, yet another bloated federal bureaucracy. Eisenhower also defeated Hitler (a duly-elected president) in a war we had no business fighting, but had no trouble leaving half of Korea to the Communists. The first supreme commander of the waste of money entity known as NATO. Signed the Civil Rights Act of 1957, one more piece of federal overreach against states rights. What is it about these Republicans and the blacks?




RICHARD NIXON: Holy smokes, talk about government overreach! Nixon was responsible for the Environmental Protection Agency, Title IX (gender equality in education), lowering the voting age to 18, and ending the Draft. As for what he wanted to do but couldn't accomplish: a guaranteed income for all Americans with children (thank God the other Republicans nixed that idea!), and guaranteed healthcare for everybody (good thing the Dumbocrats decided it didn't go far enough!) Oh, and Nixon also personally traveled to the South to end the remnants of segregation. The blacks get everything with these guys!

GERALD FORD: Just look at the photo. Need I say more?







RONALD REAGAN: Some Republican this joker was. In the 1940s, he was a union leader (Screen Actors Guild) in Hollyweird, of all places. When Governor of California, liberalized abortion laws, making him responsible for three million dead babies. As president, he expanded the federal government and raised taxes 11 times, yet tripled the deficit. Created the Dept. of Veterans Affairs (let them take care of their own affairs!). And -- hold on to your MAGA hats -- in 1982 signed into law a bill that gave amnesty to three million illegal immigrants! And you just know none of them were white.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH: After leaving office, became friends with notorious gun-runner, drug-pushing Bill Clinton -- who, in turn, was popular with the blacks. Close enough!








GEORGE W. BUSH: Government overreach, anybody? Extended federal benefits to same-sex couples, and banned federal racial profiling. As for those goddamn invaders: favored the speedy naturalization of illegal immigrants, and accepted a record number of refugees and asylum-seekers (not from Western Europe, you can count on that!). Oh, and here's a shocker: integrated the executive branch of government for the first time. Also became friends with Bill Clinton... and Michelle Obama! These guys just can't help themselves, can they?

This is who you Trumpians want your guy to be bending an elbow with? Hoo boy! You might as well start shooting pool with Obama and Clinton. Otherwise, that painting is going to make you grate again.

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